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Found this t-shirt while in Amsterdam.



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May 8, 2009

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  1. 1. safi | May 8th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    wth I can’t even be bothered to attempt reading that.
    epic fail.

  2. 2. Stafa | May 8th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    Epic Arabic fail!

  3. 3. Mohamed Marwen Meddah | May 8th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Hmmm…
    After thinking this was too epic a fail to be true, I thought there might be a bit more to it, I tried looking closer, and I think they never meant it to be read in Arabic, they just chose some Arabic (and some not so Arabic) letters and arranged them to look a bit like the exact phrase in English.
    So even in that gibberish it says “I am a tourist not a terrorist” in English.
    Do you guys see it too?

    It’s still a fail, and a shitty t-shirt, just not as epic as I first thought :P

  4. 4. safi | May 8th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    There’s no ق (gaf) in the English or Arabic equivalent sentence… so it’s a definite fail. I don’t know what you’re on about Mohamed.

  5. 5. Talloush | May 8th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    What Mohamed means is that you’re not supposed to read the Arabic script in Arabic. Look at it as though each Arabic script letter looks like an English letter. That is, “thaal”= i, “taa2 marboo6a”= a, “seen”= m, etc etc.

    It’s stupid but I get the idea.

  6. 6. eleventh.st | May 8th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    I love the shirt!!

  7. 7. Usman Shaheen | May 8th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Yes Mohammed, its English written in arabic like alphabets. really nice

  8. 8. CreativeForces | May 8th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    it’s an arabic fail and a dope WIN!

  9. 9. suspic | May 9th, 2009 at 5:08 am

    Tourists are just as annoying.

  10. 10. safi | May 9th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    wow, now the shirt owner has to get stopped for 5mins each time for deciphering.

  11. 11. Micky | May 9th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    I think it’s really funny cos it rips off stereotyping !!!

  12. 12. desertsky | May 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    What’s an epic fail is the fact some idiots think that the Arabic writing is a direct translation from the English text.As Mohamed stated it was NEVER meant to be read in Arabic.

  13. 13. Drunk'n'Gorgeous | May 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Oh I get it! It took me a bit but I got it =P I dunno I like it, I think it’s kinda’ clever!

  14. 14. oh my goodness | May 10th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    This is a font called Pseudo-Saudi (or something like that) and its meant to use Arabic letters to form English letters.. If you look at it from far away without paying much attention to each single letter, it’s supposed to say the same thing.. So no, it’s not Arabic fail, it’s just a poor sense of design :)

  15. 15. radiant guy | May 11th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Kinda remind me of a street sign in Transformers (the movie) :D
    I like the English phrase, very catchy :D

  16. 16. Omran | May 11th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    heh.. Check out this Video made by am Emarati girl for an iPod video competition

    “Tourist” by Lolouwa Al Mehairbi
    http://www.hayahfilm.com/2007/

  17. 17. joey | June 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    lmao i remember those XD



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